GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 12, 2021

transmission grid policy has stalled the growth of wind and solar power. ” “They’re both right — and it’s because we have a systemic problem,” said Gramlich, a co-author of the new report, “Disconnected: The Need for a New Generator Interconnection Policy.”

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Clean energy and markets are the solution (not scapegoat) for California’s blackouts. While the immediate cause is still being investigated, we do know that California’s grid was experiencing multiple, coincident stressors — high demand, generators not performing when called upon and energy imports not showing up. Bryn Baker.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Clean Energy Canada is a clean energy think tank at the Morris J. Through media briefs, we aim to provide useful factual and contextual information related to Canada’s clean energy transition. Wind and solar accounted for 61% of electricity generated in Denmark in 2022. Wosk Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

DENVER — It's become a cliche to compare today's energy storage market to where the solar industry was a certain number of years ago. It does not rely on a geographically specific weather pattern or any one set of state policies to become valuable, and it's already asserting itself across the U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

Two more utilities in Arizona and Colorado are moving to accelerate closure of coal plants and replace them with renewable energy backed by batteries, joining a broader push in both states to shift to more cost-effective clean energy options even in the absence of state mandates. gigawatts of solar, 850 megawatts of wind and nearly 1.4

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in her Pennsylvania hometown, she will be facing off against some of the most powerful fossil fuel interests in the United States. Department of Energy blamed on falling productivity and export bottlenecks. eastern seaboard, which could reverse the decline.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 6, 2021

Meanwhile, the rapid growth of solar power is providing generous amounts of daytime electricity, but, of course, none at night. With all these changes, it’s clear that power providers have their work cut out for them. One of them, East Bay Community Energy, is using some innovative ways to manage these trends.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 25, 2020

A new study says changing that could save the region’s utilities and customers billions of dollars over the next two decades — and highlights that a currently proposed plan to create an energy-trading market encompassing the region’s dominant utilities likely won’t be enough to get the job done.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 2, 2024

The growth of this fuel alternative in all major consuming regions witnessed robust growth with the sharp rise in natural gas prices. As a fuel, hydrogen supports applications like heavy industries , seasonal energy storage, and long-haul transport. Similarly, hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles use 40-60% of the fuel’s energy.

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Then there’s energy: whether it’s $2 gas or higher home heating bills , powering our lives has gotten pricier. These two realities, climate change and volatile energy prices, have a common denominator in fossil fuels. For starters, Alberta and Ontario are in the midst of transforming their power grids.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

But its energy infrastructure recommendations come with a greater sense of urgency, given their potential value in combating the country’s dual economic and environmental crises. The report says it is time that policy support reached “beyond renewable power.” ’s final energy demand by 2050.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 16, 2021

The expected decreased demand for fossil fuels, coupled with the falling costs associated with renewable energy projects, are driving major oil and gas companies – including bp, Total and Shell – to actively restructure their businesses to add more renewable power projects to their portfolios. Have you read?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Offshore wind energy powerhouse Orsted demonstrates that a pivot away from fossil fuels is possible. The first, biggest step to slowing climate change is switching electricity generation from coal and gas to wind and sun. This needs to happen fast, with coal phased out no later than 2030 and gas not far behind.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Meeting net zero can boost UK's energy sovereignty and guard against volatile fossil fuel prices, Climate Change Committee and National Infrastructure Commission tell new Prime Minister. Decisive government action in the near term can deliver lasting benefits to the UK's climate and energy security," the letter states.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Renewable Energy World contributor is being awarded a Constellation Prize for Policy Impact in response to a new heating/cooling solution he proposed for a 100-year-old building in Albany, NY. Back in October of 2017, Jay wrote an article that Renewable Energy World published called CHP Project for Empire State Plaza Misses the Mark.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

In November, he instructed his province’s public utilities, SaskPower and SaskEnergy, to stop collecting carbon taxes on natural gas as of January 1, 2024, if the federal government didn’t extend the same carbon price carve out to his province. The most extreme reaction was from Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 20, 2020

Adding solar farms to that list of assets could offer grid operators a new tool to deal with the challenge of integrating more and more carbon-free, yet intermittent and sometimes unpredictable, wind and solar power, said Troy Lauterbach, senior vice president of First Solar’s Energy Services business.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 9, 2021

Over the past decade, Mainspring Energy has been at work on a novel "linear generator" that it says can provide on-site electricity with lower emissions than fossil-fueled engines and microturbines, and greater flexibility than fuel cells. On Tuesday, Mainspring's vision landed a vote of confidence from U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 1, 2020

To put this problem in context, I want to share a graphic I created using data from the most recent BP Statistical Review of World Energy: The graph starts in 1965, so it doesn’t show the growth of emissions in developed countries since the Industrial Revolution. There are two drivers behind coal’s decline: Natural gas and renewables.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The solar industry met in Salt Lake City with a more sweeping and disciplined message than in some years past : Rally to extend the federal investment tax credit and buckle up for a decade of massive industry growth. The Solar Energy Industries Association industry group published a roadmap Monday to increase solar power to 20 percent of U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

A coalition of utilities and renewable developers, including Enel, RWE, Ørsted and First Solar, called for backing for green hydrogen, which would open a vast new market for cheap wind and solar power. Europe's gas sector strikes upbeat tone.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A new study from the Energy Department’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that deploying 307 GW of solar and 142 GW of wind capacity in India by 2030 would need around a $26.5 Because solar resources are good across large parts of India, the solar energy buildout—and thus the land use—potentially could be spread out. .

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

But the gas industry would stand to lose billions of dollars in stranded assets if the UK and other countries no longer needed its pipelines, city-wide grids and other infrastructure to pipe natural gas to heat millions of homes. But these boilers would still mostly run on natural gas – even if hydrogen was available.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 25, 2020

The surge in spending on all-electric homes is expected even though many consumers are unfamiliar with the natural gas-displacing electric appliances on the market today. Around 70 million American homes burn natural gas, oil, or propane for home space and water heating, according to Navigant Research. billion in 2020.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 7, 2020

This transition is being aided by policies aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions, as well as rapidly declining costs for renewables like wind and solar power. NATURAL GAS DRIVES CARBON EMISSIONS LOWER. NATURAL GAS DRIVES CARBON EMISSIONS LOWER. The shale gas boom in the U.S.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 8, 2023

Through media briefs, we aim to provide useful factual and contextual information related to Canada’s clean energy transition. The federal government has released a new paper, Powering Canada Forward , which lays out the federal government’s vision for a 100% clean power grid by 2035.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

This is much sooner than what the blue hydrogen industry is estimating when advocating for the natural gas-based fuel to be widely adopted — essentially eliminating the only viable argument to invest in blue hydrogen. . “ Credit: Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy. CCS is carbon capture and storage.).

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything. Happy Earth Day 2021!

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

A new report commissioned by Community Energy finds that replacing Colorado’s aging coal plants with a mix of wind and solar backed by battery storage and some natural gas, and electrifying transport and buildings, would reduce Colorado electric costs and average rates by more than 15% by 2040 and produce annual savings in excess of… The post (..)

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Green Hydrogen is the trendiest clean energy source around, touted for its ‘simple’ ability to turn water into a highly combustible energy source capable of replacing our demand for oil and gas. By David Stent — Climate Council Digital Producer & Content Manager. The push and pull of supply and demand.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 13, 2021

The proportion of global power generation represented by VRE, such as wind and solar power, has been rising rapidly since 2007. The proportion of global power generation represented by VRE, such as wind and solar power, has been rising rapidly since 2007.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 17, 2021

Countries are slowly diversifying their energy portfolio by including hydrogen in their future roadmap towards a low carbon economy. Countries like Germany, Japan, the UK, China, Australia, and others have already made plans targeting Hydrogen production and prices with a series of investments and potential policies being considered.

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Solar Power World

APRIL 20, 2022

By Gabe Phillips, CEO, Catalyst Power The Russian invasion of Ukraine has made the clean energy transition even more urgent. Now, buying Russian natural gas means directly supporting a regime that is committing war crimes.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Bryn Baker of the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance argues much of the finger-pointing in the wake of the recent Californian blackouts has been wide of the mark. How should businesses and other large customers be thinking about the increasing strains from climate change with an evolving energy resource mix? And not just in California.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The energy transition isn't just about producing renewable energy - investment and earnings opportunities are spread across four different areas, explain Schroders' Mark Lacey, Alexander Monk and Felix Odey. Its aim is to reduce energy-related carbon dioxide emissions to help meet global climate targets. Clean energy generation.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The IEA has released its first ever evaluation of global energy employment both today and in the future - BusinessGreen takes a deep dive. Fossil fuels - oil, gas, and coal - are still very much the backbone of the global energy system, and these industries employ tens of millions of workers around the world.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

The European Union is planning a 15-gigawatt renewable energy tender and auctions for green hydrogen projects as part of a trillion-dollar Green Deal package, according to draft proposals leaked this week. A draft document obtained by Bloomberg and Euractiv lays out a series of planned policies.

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